Pictures at a Revolution: Five Movies and the Birth of the New Hollywood
Film historians agree that the '60s transformed the American movie scene. Old Hollywood formulas no longer worked; films like The Graduate, Bonnie and Clyde, Guess Who's Coming to Dinner, and In the Heat of the Night ignited an indie revolution that steadily supplanted the studio system. Mark...
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Film historians agree that the '60s transformed the American movie scene. Old Hollywood formulas no longer worked; films like The Graduate, Bonnie and Clyde, Guess Who's Coming to Dinner, and In the Heat of the Night ignited an indie revolution that steadily supplanted the studio system. Mark Harris's Pictures at a Revolution focuses on the four aforementioned films plus the 20th Century Fox musical mega-disaster Doctor Dolittle. A lively narrative history of a major shift in world cinema.
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Format: ebook
ISBN:
9781400106257 (1400106257)
ASIN: 9781400106257
Publish date: 28-03-2008
Publisher: Tantor Media, Inc.
Edition language: English
Very detailed (sometimes exhausting) look at the five best picture nominees for the 1968 Academy Awards. Audio narrated by Lloyd James
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